Puberty is a difficult time in life. This transition was difficult for you and it was difficult for me. It was difficult for Mother Teresa, it was difficult for Art Garfunkel, and it was difficult for the Brothers Grimm. But no one had it worse than Ulrich Albrecht.

Not only did Ulrich contend with unrequited love, an overbearing step-father, a deadly series of militaristic trials, and the other usual struggles of Medieval German youth. But Ulrich lived in an older, more vicious land. A land where the world outside one’s home was a dark violent place filled with snarling horrors and bloodthirsty shadows. It was here that Ulrich Albrecht experienced his transcendence to adolescence. But he did not go from boy to man. Ulrich Albrecht went from boy to beast.